Sketch Session
Architect Wilson Fuqua creates an architectural magic trick. In live time, before my very eyes, I was able to watch Wilson take the floorplan of the second floor of the Hal Thomson designed home at 3925 Potomac Avenue that has three bedrooms and two modest sized bathrooms and create a floorplan within the same footprint that has three bedrooms and three bathrooms including a new proper master bathroom and a new master closet with over 16 feet of closet hanging space. This was something I could have never visualized ahead of time, and from just looking at the space am still not able to visualize it in person. However, a talented architect like Wilson Fuqua can keep the loadbearing walls in place, work with existing footprint of the space, and after several sketching iterations create a modified floorplan that is brilliant. Architects and interior designers are underappreciated in how they can see things, sketch plans, and technically bring them to life.
My fascination with the magic architects can do came at the beginning of my career. I would ask an architect to take what could be aptly called a jungle of rooms in a home that had been converted to four or five apartments with front doors placed on all four sides of the house. Again, like a magic trick, an elegant floorplan would emerge from the architectural chaos. One of my favorite floorplan sketching discoveries was finding an original, elegant, 8 foot wide corridor running the length of the home. No one would have ever known that corridor existed by just walking through all the apartment units. Also, during renovation of this home, 9‑1/2 foot ceilings became 11 foot ceilings with the original stained wood beams uncovered and intact. Sometimes renovations destroy the historic character of a home, sometimes with a good architect the historic character is revealed and enhanced. *Sketch Session
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